Coronary heart of Helena Public sale and extra

The second annual Coronary heart of Helena Artwork Public sale can be 6-9 p.m. April 10 on the Helena Civic Middle, 340 Neill Ave.

The public sale sponsored by St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral is to assist help some nonprofit service organizations within the Helena neighborhood. All proceeds will profit these organizations and St. Peter’s Cathedral Capital Marketing campaign Fund.

This will characteristic a silent artwork public sale with artwork from native artists and plenty of well-known established artists. All sorts of artwork can be featured: oils, watercolors, acrylics, bronzes, icons, fiber arts and pottery.

Attendees can mingle whereas consuming and consuming and go to with a few of the artists. Curtis Grevenitz, chief meteorologist with KTVH, will function the grasp of ceremonies and Mayor Wilmot Collins will welcome individuals to the occasion.

These to profit from the public sale embrace Household Promise, The Friendship Middle, God’s Love, Helena Meals Share, YWCA, Rocky Head Begin, Good Samaritan, Intermountain and St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral’s Subsequent 100 Years Marketing campaign.

Tickets are $25 and can be out there from the assorted organizations benefiting from the occasion in addition to on-line at www.spchelena.org and on the door. A ticket contains hearty hors d’oeuvres and a Coronary heart of Helena Cocktail.

For extra data contact Dave Gallik at 406-443-0009.

Sponsors and donors embrace Thrivent, St. Peter’s Well being, Queen Metropolis Framing, Helena Artwork Middle, Alternative Financial institution and St. Peter’s Episcopal Cathedral.

Saints Giving Day 2025 was the faculty’s greatest and most profitable ever, Carroll President John Cech stated Friday.

He stated in a memo that greater than 1,000 donors raised over $451,000 in 24 hours from March 20-21 in help of scholars, scholarships, tutorial packages and extra.

He stated it was virtually double final yr’s tally, which – at 1,176 presents for a complete of $218,739 – was itself a record-breaking yr!

He thanked the Workplace of Institutional Development crew, college students, school, coach advocates and help from alumni, mother and father, school, workers, trustees and buddies of Carroll.

He additionally thanked Terry Payne, whose “Carroll Presidential Tribute Match” was a dollar-for-dollar match for presents of $1,000 or extra as much as $100,000.

He stated “$35,000 stays within the match, so presents made now will nonetheless go twice as far in supporting our college students.”

This yr’s occasion featured 57 distinctive causes — from tutorial departments and athletic groups to scholar actions and campus initiatives.

“We have been thrilled to see each returning favorites and thrilling new efforts thrive, together with the Preventing Saints Meals Pantry, Borromeo Chapel Remediation, Political Science Moot Courtroom, and Medication in Mexico,” Cech stated.

He gave a particular shoutout to the category of 2024, who led all courses in variety of donors.

“… an unbelievable present of dedication from our latest alumni lower than a yr after commencement!” he stated.

The Week of the Younger Little one can be April 5-11 with occasions deliberate all through the Helena space.

The celebration by the Early Childhood Collaborative of the Better Helena Space has a 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. kickoff April 5 on the Lewis & Clark Library with actions and giveaway for households.

Different occasions are deliberate all through the week, together with a free story time, bowling, a narrative time on the state Capitol with visitor readers, dancing and extra.

For extra data, go to ecchelena.org/woyc.

Humanities Montana lately awarded $65,800 in help of humanities tasks throughout the state by means of their mini-grant, neighborhood venture grant, and public humanities fellowship funding alternatives.

The packages help analysis, public programming and neighborhood tasks that create collaborative alternatives for Montanans to work together with the humanities.

“Humanities Montana helps community-inspired and community-driven efforts to deliver individuals collectively to be taught, collaborate and develop by means of significant conversations and humanities actions,” stated Megan Hill Sundy, Humanities Montana grants and analysis director.

In March, Humanities Montana funded the next neighborhood venture and public humanities fellowships as a part of their first main grant cycle of 2025:

Helena-area packages embrace:

• The Montana Tapestry: Folks and Locations from 1776 to At present, Montana Historic Society, $7,840.

This venture will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. The Montana Tapestry touring exhibit will educate the general public on the lesser-known historical past, individuals and locations of Montana and spotlight Montana’s altering cultural, social and bodily landscapes from 1776 to right this moment.

• Unequal and Unruly: Working Class Ladies Create Which means in Montana, 1910 to 1960, Jennifer Hill, Boulder $4,000.

This analysis venture will discover the historical past of working girls in Montana between 1910-1960. Throughout this time, working girls in Montana taught faculty, staffed hospitals, stored factories working and raised kids. They danced and cherished and paid the lease; they stirred up hassle and talked again.

• The Lives of James P. Beckwourth and the Disappearance of the Black West, Anthony W. Wooden, Helena, $4,000.

James P. Beckwourth was the primary Black man to see and discover a lot of the Rocky Mountains and Far West in the course of the 1820s-1850s. For the reason that publication of his wildly profitable autobiography in 1856, claims about his life within the West have been endlessly debated.

Regardless of the rise of a brand new Black Western historical past because the Nineteen Eighties, no scholar has tried a radical and trustworthy evaluation of Beckwourth’s participation within the fur commerce, the settlement of western territories, or his distinguished place within the turn-of-the-century West’s cultural creativeness.

The annual Helena Bike Blessing can be held midday to three p.m. April 26 at Predominant Avenue Park, East Helena. That is an all-volunteer and family-friendly neighborhood occasion. The park is pet-free.

All bikes and riders are welcome; together with all bikes, bicycles, 3-wheelers, ATV’s, Sports activities bikes, MotoX, 4-wheelers, OHV’s, side-by-sides, and many others.

The occasion is free and open to all. Music can be offered by The Residing Proof band. Scorching canine lunch is offered. No alcohol allowed.

The primary Helena Bike Blessing occasion was held in 1998 by the Rev. Chuck Houk, Crossroads Christian Church in Helena, with the help of Ron Elerick, Circuit Riders Motorbike Ministry.

The group thanks the East Helena Metropolis Council for permitting them to make use of the park.

Better Helena Offers, the area’s 24-hour giving day, can be April 30–Might 1.

Greater than 100 native nonprofits come collectively serving to with psychological well being companies, the humanities, meals safety or schooling.

“Each donation strengthens the material of this area—our dwelling,” organizers stated.

Be part of the motion at www.greaterhelenagives.org.

AARP Driver Security has scheduled courses for April and Might in Helena.

Contributors obtain updates on the principles of the street and be taught driving methods to adapt to the results of growing old and to cut back probabilities of having a crash.

This 4 1/2 hour course was developed for contributors age 50-plus; however is open to all ages. The course payment is $25 ($20 with AARP Membership Card). Auto insurance coverage corporations in Montana present a multi-year low cost to contributors 55 years of age and older.

• April 14, (Monday) at “Outdated” First Interstate Financial institution Bldg.; 2728 Colonial Drive; 11 a.m. to three:30 p.m.
• Might 16, (Friday) at “Outdated” First Interstate Financial institution Bldg.; 2728 Colonial Drive; 11 a.m. to three:30 p.m.

To register for a category name: 406-457-4712. Discover further courses at aarp.org/driversafety

The Helena Nar-Anon Household Group is a 12 Step group for household and buddies of addicts.

The group meets 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at St. Paul’s Methodist Church, 512 Logan St., Helena.

For extra data, e-mail helenanaranon@gmail.com.

The state is celebrating its second annual Montana Soil Well being Week the primary week of April to lift consciousness concerning the significance of soil stewardship whereas celebrating the function of farmers and ranchers in Montana.

Soil Well being Week was created throughout Montana’s 2023 Legislative Session when the Northern Plains Useful resource Council labored with others to enact SJ 9.

“Agriculture is deeply essential to Montana, each by way of our economic system and our tradition,” stated John Brown, a Northern Plains member and longtime soil well being advocate who has helped implement revolutionary soil practices on agricultural operations throughout the state.

“I’ve seen firsthand how even small steps to extend soil well being can have a huge impact on farms and ranches,” continued Brown. “And, it’s not only a matter of getting heartier, extra resilient grasses and crops. More healthy soils additionally improve meals safety and get monetary savings by limiting the inputs required, conserving water, and rising yields.”

Northern Plains is internet hosting a web based occasion at 6 p.m. on April 1 on “Rising Wholesome Roots: A Montana Soil Well being Week Kickoff.” This occasion will characteristic creator, educator, and agriculture advocate Liz Carlisle in addition to a particular message from creator, farmer, and soil well being pioneer Gabe Brown.

You may register for this occasion and be taught extra about different workshops, movie screenings, and gatherings throughout Montana Soil Well being Week at NorthernPlains.org/Soil-Health-Week.